TO PLEASE A CHILD. A BIOGRAPHY OF L. FRANK BAUM, ROYAL HISTORIAN OF OZ
by Baum, Frank Joslyn and MacFall, Russell P
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
-
Yarmouthport, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
Chicago:Reilly & Lee Co., 1961. First Edition. hard cover. Very Good/Very Good. Inscribed by author. Chicago:Reilly & Lee Co. 1961. 1st edition. 284pp. Illustrated. Signed/inscribed by the author on the 1st free end-page. Hardcover with dust jacket. Book in very good, clean condition. Inscribed by Mr. MacFall on the 1st free end-page but otherwise no previous owners marks or signatures. Pages clean and bright, binding tight and hinges intact. Dust jacket in very good condition. Price clipped, lightly soiled and edgeworn, with a 2 inch closed tear to rear spine edge.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Parnassus Book Service
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 23707
- Title
- TO PLEASE A CHILD. A BIOGRAPHY OF L. FRANK BAUM, ROYAL HISTORIAN OF OZ
- Author
- Baum, Frank Joslyn and MacFall, Russell P
- Format/Binding
- Hard cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Chicago:Reilly & Lee Co.
- Date Published
- 1961
- Keywords
- BIOGRAPHY; L. FRANK BAUM; ROYAL HISTORIAN OZ;
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Parnassus Book Service
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About the Seller
Parnassus Book Service
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Yarmouthport, Massachusetts
About Parnassus Book Service
Ben Muse began selling books from the former Knowles General Store in 1959. Now in our third generation, we are a famiy-run, general book store selling new and old (often rare) books as well as issuing specialty catalogs on a variety of subjects: Americana, Latin America, Maritime, Art, the Orient and a variety of other subjects. If you can't find what you are looking for here on the web, please contact us directly at our Yarmouthport shop -- or better yet stop by to browse and talk. We look forward to seeing you.
Glossary
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
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